Bassic, I'll have to stand corrected. I've never heard *you* play your instrument, of course, and I am more than willing to take your word for how nicely the two of you work together. Actually, acoustic bass guitars are extemely rare where I live, and I'm sure I've never heard one played with any level of expertise.

Your observation that the electric bass's sustain can be incompatible with an otherwise-all-acoustic emsemble is very interesting, and indoubtedly valid to some extent. Of course, on the other hand, use of the electric bass guitar in the same context is *extremely* common in most commercial/recording contexts, and good players can usually make it work passibly well.

Johnny in OKC brings up an interesting point about that big old Mexican guitarron. Isn't that instrument also called a "sexto," or is that something else?